Box of Danger

We should talk about the music we're all listening to these days.

Post Album covers too.

Recently, listening to a lot of ELO.

I also recently listened to their album Eldorado in full for the first time in almost 5 years.

Widely considered one of ELO's greatest works, it's a concept album about "daydreaming" the landscapes painted in each song, and the over arching themes the album has makes it a great album, even today.

Been listening to a mixture of Chris Isaak and R.E.M.

For Isaak, particularly this album, San Francisco Days. His music is primarily loved-and-lost Roots Rock and Roy Orbison/Elvis Presley-influenced Rock and Roll balladry, but in the case of San Francisco Days, he does switch up the formula a little. The real standout is track 3, "Round 'N' Round", which is just Isaak singing over a driving drum machine while playing the fuzziest, nastiest sounding guitar he ever put on a record. If you've ever heard "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing", it's even better then that.
Oh yeah, there's also a lot of his best work on it, such as the title track, "Beautiful Homes" and "Can't Do a Thing to Stop Me". Criminally underrated.



For R.E.M., it's mostly a playlist I have set up on my iTunes, though the songs from their debut, Murmur, always standout. "Radio Free Europe", "Pilgrimage" and "Talk about the Passion" are some of their most unforgettable songs. Rich Jangle Pop at its best.



There's also Automatic for the People, which I've only recently actually listened to. Besides the first track, "Drive", which just feels lyrically pointless to me, "Try Not to Breathe", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" and "Everybody Hurts" are arguably Michael Stipe's most passionate and astonishing vocal work yet. The music's great too, though I prefer my R.E.M. without the string section.

The Electric Version by The New Pornographers. Personally, this CD takes their "indierock-pop" style in a more accessible fashion, and in doing so, personally, I liked it quite a bit more than their first CD.

Also, don't call them a "supergroup."

Oh hell yeah; I love Electric Version. "Testament to Youth in Verse" is my favorite.



Been listening to a lot of Classical lately. Shostakovich, Vivaldi and the Oldboy OST, lol

And of course, this classic:

Been diggin some Ke$ha - Animal. Mainly Xero's favorite song D.I.N.O.S.A.U.R.


Also of course I can't put down Justin Bieber - My World 2.0. Really sad I won't be able to see his concert in North Korea. I'm his only fan here but damnit! I wanted to see him.


Also Ween - Chocolate and Cheese. Why didn't anyone tell me how god damned good the cheese was? /slap

Quit being James. Also, I listened to the White Stripes' "Elephant"



I'm very meh toward Jack White and his sisterwife but this CD was pretty good if you dropped off the last song. That was hokey.

For all of our hipsters.

Neutral Milk Hotel is always welcome

Anyway:










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Ok, The Protomen win.
This is seriously one of the best examples of storytelling in an album. Especially with their original source and how little it has to actually do with the story of Mega Man.

If you haven't at least listened to their first CD, you should probably fix that.

Bought two Beck albums today:


This one is sweet. It has this "rock-Beetles" feel to it. It's really good. If you like nice, smooth alt.-rock, I recommend it.



One foot in the Grave was "meh." I really don't care for folk music, and a majority of this CD is folk/blues. It's great if you like folk music, but I don't. Also, the version I purchased came with 12+ extra songs that were never released. But they were still the same style of music.

What made me hate myself more was that Last. FM also recommended I listen to the Flamming Lips and Ween. I kinda wanted to kill myself after seeing that.

Yeah, One foot in the grave isn't very good.

Odelay is easily Beck's best album, and everyone should at least listen to it once.

Check out The Information if you are really interested in Beck.

Also, Ween and The Flaming Lips are great. You should just actually listen to them instead of passing judgement.

Listened.
Judgment: I'm Stupid

I actually really liked One Foot in the Grave, but then I'm into esoteric crap anyway.


I've been listening to a ton of music by obscure, badly under-appreciated group Sparks. The group inspired everyone from They Might Be Giants to Depeche Mode to Sex Pistols' Steve Jones to Queen (who damn near stole everything from them :B )

This, Kimono My House is their Glam Rock masterpiece. Clever, witty, rocking, operatic. The opening track alone, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us", is one of rock's great moments and it doesn't even realize it.
I've also been listening to their follow-up, Propaganda, and No. 1 in Heaven, their later endeavor into Electronic Disco (just run with it; it's awesome too).

I'm not saying it's bad, just not my taste, or what I expect from Beck.

Very good lo-fi punk with that sort of youthful, uplifting sound common these days with the genre.

Think Neutral Milk Hotel without the horns or Mangum.

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My Dear Disco's new Single, "It Could Be." I love this song a lot.

Meg is his ex-wife. What's wrong with It's True That We Love One Another? But anyways The White Stripes best album is:

Icky Thump

It has their 2 best songs: Icky Thump and You Don't Know What Love Is, You Just Do As You're Told.

Bought three CDs earlier this week, two of which I've been listening to non-stop.
First is Talking Heads' second album, 'More Songs about Buildings and Food'.

It's if their first album was even better than it already was, and if Brian Eno was producing and making everything even better again.

Second is The Buzzcocks' singles compilation 'Singles Going Steady'.

Great purchase as well. It's about as pop as I'm willing to let my Punk Rock get, what with almost every song being about love or the lack-thereof. But the performances are tight, the guitar solos are blistering, and the only tracks I didn't like were the very last two, which were B-sides anyway.

Not as much as I was expecting for such a ground-breaking album; perhaps it would benefit from a 2nd listen.

However, this is still really good, with excellent instrumentation n all accounts and the vocals in the final track are pretty moving.

lol no.


Entitled: "Garbled Nonsense"

Oi! Say what you will about Animal Collective; For Reverend Green is inexorable!